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Recent advancements in large language models have significantly improved their context windows, yet challenges in effective long-term memory management remain. We introduce MemTree, an algorithm that leverages a dynamic, tree-structured…

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Worst-case optimal join algorithms have gained a lot of attention in the database literature. We now count with several algorithms that are optimal in the worst case, and many of them have been implemented and validated in practice.…

Databases · Computer Science 2020-01-10 Gonzalo Navarro , Juan L. Reutter , Javiel Rojas-Ledesma

Lazy search trees (Sandlund & Wild FOCS 2020, Sandlund & Zhang SODA 2022) are sorted dictionaries whose update and query performance smoothly interpolates between that of efficient priority queues and binary search trees - automatically,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-12-17 Casper Moldrup Rysgaard , Sebastian Wild

Global optimization of decision trees has shown to be promising in terms of accuracy, size, and consequently human comprehensibility. However, many of the methods used rely on general-purpose solvers for which scalability remains an issue.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-31 Jacobus G. M. van der Linden , Mathijs M. de Weerdt , Emir Demirović

A fundamental question in the conjunction of information theory, biophysics, bioinformatics and thermodynamics relates to the principles and processes that guide the development of natural intelligence in natural environments where…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-12-31 Serge Dolgikh

We consider the dictionary problem in external memory and improve the update time of the well-known buffer tree by roughly a logarithmic factor. For any \lambda >= max {lg lg n, log_{M/B} (n/B)}, we can support updates in time O(\lambda /…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2011-04-15 John Iacono , Mihai Pǎtraşcu

In this paper we use a dynamic programming approach to analytically solve an endogenous growth model with internal habits where the key parameters describing their formation, namely the intensity, persistence and lag structure (or memory),…

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We introduce exponential search trees as a novel technique for converting static polynomial space search structures for ordered sets into fully-dynamic linear space data structures. This leads to an optimal bound of O(sqrt(log n/loglog n))…

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A tremendous range of design tasks in materials, physics, and biology can be formulated as finding the optimum of an objective function depending on many parameters without knowing its closed-form expression or the derivative. Traditional…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-08 Ye Wei , Bo Peng , Ruiwen Xie , Yangtao Chen , Yu Qin , Peng Wen , Stefan Bauer , Po-Yen Tung

We consider the fundamental problem of designing a self-adjusting tree, which efficiently and locally adapts itself towards the demand it serves (namely accesses to the items stored by the tree nodes), striking a balance between the…

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Efficient search operations in databases are paramount for timely retrieval of information various applications. This research introduces a novel approach, combining dynamicalgorithm1 selection and caching2 strategies, to optimize search…

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In the age of big data, sorting is an indispensable operation for DBMSes and similar systems. Having data sorted can help produce query plans with significantly lower run times. It also can provide other benefits like having non-blocking…

Databases · Computer Science 2022-07-27 Michael Polyntsov , Valentin Grigorev , Kirill Smirnov , George Chernishev

In recent years a large number of problems have been considered in external memory models of computation, where the complexity measure is the number of blocks of data that are moved between slow external memory and fast internal memory…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-12-11 Lars Arge , Mikkel Thorup

An optimal binary search tree for an access sequence on elements is a static tree that minimizes the total search cost. Constructing perfectly optimal binary search trees is expensive so the most efficient algorithms construct almost…

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Many real-world problems require making sequences of decisions where the outcomes of each decision are probabilistic and uncertain, and the availability of different actions is constrained by the outcomes of previous actions. There is a…

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The Binary Search Tree (BST) is average in computer science which supports a compact data structure in memory and oneself even conducts a row of quick algorithms, by which people often apply it in dynamical circumstance. Besides these…

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LLMs are trained once, then deployed into a world that never stops changing. External memory compensates for this, but most systems manage it explicitly rather than letting it adapt on its own. Biological memory works differently: coupled…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Andreas Pattichis , Constantine Dovrolis

Optimal 3-way comparison search trees (3WCST's) can be computed using standard dynamic programming in time O(n^3), and this can be further improved to O(n^2) by taking advantage of the Monge property. In contrast, the fastest algorithm in…

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Retrieving relevant targets from an extremely large target set under computational limits is a common challenge for information retrieval and recommendation systems. Tree models, which formulate targets as leaves of a tree with trainable…

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